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back to part six of my reading of Riizard Lgut

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goes the Demon in Democracy. We are smack dab in

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the middle of chapter three, and we are going to

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keep going. This is part five of chapter three. There

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is yet another engine of politicization in liberal democracy. As

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I pointed out previously, this system has an inbuilt tendency

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to extend its rural rule to all areas of life,

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no matter how small or one would think non political.

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While it is true that the liberal and democratic traditions

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did include a vague promise to accept free, non political

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self organization of communities and disturb flourish and undisturbed flourishing

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of social life, this acceptance never really went beyond verbal declarations.

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What invalidated it was a much stronger tendency, both in

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liberalism and in democracy, to perform a deep political restructuring

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of society. What actually happened was the opposite of what

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the doctrine professed, an atrophy of social spontaneity and a

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hyper hypert this's word should be hypertrophy, hypertrophy of politics.

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I'm assuming that would be like entrophy or I'm gonna

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look it up real quick. Hold on, I rarely do this,

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but I don't remember what this word means. Process of

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no increasing the sized, density and shape of an organ

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or tissue hyper yes, usually through cell enlargement cool. In

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the liberal tradition, communities such as family and nation were

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not believed to have independent existence and therefore have always

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been looked upon with suspens Liberals never parted with individualistic

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assumptions according to which collective entities had a secondary role,

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being contractual and provisional constructions. Doctrinally or doctrinally, nothing stood

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in the way of rebuilding the communities according to liberal rules,

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which meant free exit and equal rights to everybody, and

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the empowering of the state with the tools to eliminate discrimination.

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Such strong pressure to restructure communities and ultimately to weaken

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their roles does not exist in the democratic tradition as

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long as the democratic mechanisms were limited to the emergence,

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maintenance and transfer of power in the government. But after

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the liberal democracy gained strength and matured, all of that changed.

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One of the main objectives that the elected authority set

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before itself was liberalization of society, that is, harmonizing the

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whole of society with the political system. Homogeneity well, I

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mean homogeneity, but not homogeneity of your culture, or your

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religion or your family. But according to the system liberal

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democrats were guided by a similar assumption as the communists

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before them. Both disliked communities for their alleged anachronism, and

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for that reason thought them because deep rooted. Because deep

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rooted to be the major obstacles to progress when you're moving,

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when you have progress, when you're moving towards a goal,

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anything that's deep rooted isn't moving with you, and I

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that's an impediment. If enough of the population becomes deep rooted,

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they're going to resist that progress. Both believe that one

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cannot modernize society without modernizing communities, including rural areas, families, churches,

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and schools. Just as communism was not possible with families

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adhering to the feudal patriarchal patriarchal society system, so liberal

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democracy is believed to be incomplete and unsuccessful with schools

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respecting traditional moral and cultural authoritarianism. The arguments are analogous.

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Just as a person coming from a non communist community

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could not become a full fledged, dedicated, and efficient citizen

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of the communist state, so a graduate of a traditional

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school will never be a faithful and reliable citizen of

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the liberal democratic state. I was talking with our friend

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dark enlightenment about this. Yesterday we were talking about Catholic

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School and the Catholic Church, and now, the Catholic Church

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was a rock that was unmovable for so long despite

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every system, every organization is going to have corruption, but

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it was unmovable. It didn't change as far as its

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doctrine went and as far as its worship went, as

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far as its form went, and then it underwent its

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own Nuremberg Trials in nineteen sixty five, and ever since

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then it is not it's become so no, it's become

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so a historical to its own self that now you

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see a mass movement among Catholics to move back to

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the Latin mass and traditionally, so just an example, it

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was a rock, and because progress was being made, they

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had to move that rock and make it roll. And

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when that rock rolls, it's going to pick up if

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it's rolling with progressivism, it's going to pick up hints

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of progressivism. And you've seen that in every basically every

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religious organization. Socialists and communists, let it be noted, have

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always embraced the notion of community, at least theoretically, to

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a lot larger extent than liberals, whom they accused of

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individualism that falsified human nature. However, while emphasizing the role

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of the community, they sternly and ruthlessly criticized, just as

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liberals did, existing communities with long traditions, and after seizing power,

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brutally destroyed them. Villages were treated with particular aversion because

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they were seen as the main stay of tradition. Marx

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and Engels contemptuously wrote about the idiocy of rural life,

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and their successors did everything to destroy rural communities, which

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they regarded as strongholds of conservatism and bigotry. The communist

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regimes systematically did their best to wipe out rural culture,

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while at the same time seemingly defended the peasants as

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victims of exploitation. This inconsistency was not an isolated case.

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The Communists also effectively destroyed working class communities, even though

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in its official program the party proclaimed itself to be

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the strongest ever champion of the world working class, which

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it honored by calling on it to become a history

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making liberator of humanity. The brutal crusade against existing rural

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and urban communities against farmers and workers did not prevent

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the Communists from praising the working people of town and

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country and the proletariat terms denoting social entities whose existence

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was rather doubtful. The communists also exhorted the proletarians of

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all countries to unite in the mission of carrying out

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a worldwide communist revolution. The proletariat was an abstract term

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to which no real community corresponded. It was nothing but

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a requirement of political strategy. The Marxist proletariat existed only

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so far as it fulfilled the political criteria of the

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revolutionary program, and the only identifying feature of this construct

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was its political role by itself. The status of being

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a factory worker or being unemployed did not automatically make

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one beloe belong to the working people of town and

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country or the proletariat. We see this today the same

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thing in liberalism, and a lot of people who quote

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unquote called themselves right wingers still to cry liberalism. Oh,

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all the political powers in the cities, We can go

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to the cities. Huh, how's that working out. The politicization

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of society by liberal democracy developed somewhat differently, but had

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similar effects when it became largely acknowledged that this system

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was destined not only to secure a smooth transfer of

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political power from one government to another, but to organize

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the entire fabric of society. Communities became a natural object

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of first critique and then open attack. Because they were

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seen as power structures of an alien, nonliberal and non

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democratic nature, stripped of all content and all value, and

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reduced to the political form, they were forced to accept

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liberal democratic rules as the only acceptable standards. Whenever they

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have managed to resist such standards or have been defended

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on non political grounds, they provoked even louder protests. The

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pure liberal democrats could not but see in them morally

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out could not but see in them morally outrageous and

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politically dangerous anachronisms that were to open the door for dictatorship.

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The old communal bonds, incomprehensible to and feared by the

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liberal democratic mind, were to be replaced with new, modern ones.

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Libertarianism just replaces this with, you know, with not a

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liberal democratic mind. But they are seeking to replace the old.

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They will tell you, oh, you can do what you

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want over there, will do what we want over here.

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But then everlasts ever now. The feminist ideology, for example,

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proclaimed that women are united by a special feeling of

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togetherness and solidarity, which they unsurprisingly called a bond of sisterhood.

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It does not require much perspectiveness to see that the

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women thus defined were a close equivalent of Marxist proletariat.

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Like the proletariat, the women's sisters were believed to form

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an international, or rather transnational, political group whose primary reason

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of being is empowerment of their entire sex and liberation

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of all possible chains imposed on them by history and

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by men. By default. Anything that has liber in it

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starts with liber or is promoting libre. Is not promoting libre,

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they will tell you. I mean who promoting liber is

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telling you that? Who is talking about men's roles and

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women's roles? That's anathematic them. Just as a proletariat woman,

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women is an abstract concept that does not denote any

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actual existing community, but only an imagined collective, made an

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object of political worship among feminist organizations and their allies.

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But the paradox is that the feminist woman, being a

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figment of political imagination, is considered by the feminists to

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be a proper woman, a woman in a strict sense,

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the truest woman. Just as for communists, the Marxist proletariat

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was the truest representative of the working class. By the

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same token, a real woman living in a real society,

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like a real worker living in a real society, is

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politically not to be trusted because she deviates too much

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from the political model. In fact, a non feminist woman

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is not a woman at all, just as a non

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communist worker was not really a proletarian. No, she can

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do anything a man can do. Yep. There are other

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cases of bringing into alleged exists in certain groups by

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giving them for above from above, as it were, a

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political identity. Probably the most striking examples are homosexuals, who,

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by a political fiat gained a status of a transnational

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movement fighting for power and political influence. Even some ethnic

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groups today only insofar as they are seen by their

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assigned political role as fighters for group entitlements. Multiculturalism, and

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idea that has become extremely popular in recent decades, is

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nothing more than a program to build a society in

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which there exists not many cultures, but many political identities

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attached to many real or more often imagined collectives. Multiculturalism

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encourages what is today called identity politics. This term may

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be misleading. It has little to do with the defense

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of the rich fab of societies and their historically constituted communities,

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but should be rather seen as a program of politicization

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of certain groups that could radically change the fabric of society.

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One would think that such a program is congruent with

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the logic of democracy, which, after all, is based on

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the competition among groups struggling for power. This argument is

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partly correct and partly fallacious. It is correct so far

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as it actually points to today's persistent tendency to turn

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social groups into something like political parties, which, once they

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become parties, lose their communal character. Women, homosexuals, Muslims, ethnic

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groups are being perceived as and transformed into quasi parties

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organized from above by the political or ideological leadership, and

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not possessing any characteristics, any possessing other characteristics than resulting

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from the struggle of power against other groups, and no

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other identity than that provided by this leadership, allowing no

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ideological dissent. What's he saying? All of these special interest

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groups are puppeted from above? Who started the NAACP? Do

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I need to say it? Go look it up? Whoever?

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Is not a member of this quasi party, even though

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for some reason, be it sex, birth, or color, he

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should be included, but stays outside its boundaries or sometimes

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even opposes it. Is the enemy, a sellout, and a trader.

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A Black American who condemns the absurdity of African Americanism,

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regardless of his virtues and achievements, is considered as much

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a trader, as much a trader to his own race.

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A woman who rejects feminism for its crude and destructive

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ideological content is a trader to the sisterhood. This argument

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is also wrong in another respect. Obviously, communities are not parties,

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and a society cannot be divided, like a democratically elected parliament,

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into parties playing a political game and vying for power.

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The word multiculturalism, still used today despite numerous criticisms and ridicule,

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represents yet another hoax that liberal democracy created and that

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turned out to be super surprisingly effective. Both parts of

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the word misrepresent reality. Multiculturalism is not about culture but

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about politics. In fact, they should. They should be polyt

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as in polit bureau rather than culture, and mono rather

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than multi. Many ingredients of the multicultural cake are not

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ingredients anymore. But have become the cake itself. Feminism is

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not the culture of feminists, or feminist parties or women,

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but the political platform expoused by governments, the European Union

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and many international institutions. The ideology of homosexuality is no

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longer in the hands of homosexual activists in their organization,

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but is a major item in national and global agendas.

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A nation that would dare to entertain any misgivings in

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this regard, or, for example, include wording in its constitution,

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as was recently done by the Hungarians, that marriage as

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a union between a man and a woman, would be

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subjected to almost worldwide condemnation expressed in the rhetoric of

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rage and hatred. The acquisition of all these catchphrases by

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the mainstream resulted in paradoxically further homogenization of the modern world,

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the most effectively executed because concealed behind the shamelessly fraudulent

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rhetoric of cultural diversity. Hence, multiculturalism does not avert the

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progressive politicization of liberal democracies nor stop the herd like

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proclivity of a liberal democratic demos. In fact, multiculturalism pushes

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them to a new level never before in human history.

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Do we see a similar phenomenon when millions of people

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indistinguishable from each other, using the same patterns of thinking,

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politically homogeneous, and oblivious to any other way of viewing

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the political world except according to the orthodox liberal democratic version,

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are not only convinced of their own individual and group

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differences and proclaim the unchallenged superiority of pluralism, but also

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wants to enforce the same simplistic and tediously predictable orthodoxy

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on the entire world as the ultimate embodiment of the

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idea of multiplicity. All this undermines and weakens communities their

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role in their cohesion, and it is the communities that

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are the major carriers and strongholds of diversity. They're not

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the only victims. Politicization, which took over culture, has also

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considerable havoc in the law, making it a particularly effective

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tool of political or in fact partisan power. Again, an

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analogy with communism is inescapable. Naturally. Under communism, the degree

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of arbitrariness and control of the courts by the ruling

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party were much stronger, but the approach to the law

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in liberal democracy and the use of law by the

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liberal democratic mainstream place closer to rather than farther from communism,

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today's mainstream, like the erstwhile communist ruling class, takes over

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the mechanisms for creating laws and regards it as its

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exclusive property to be used for its own goals. The

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modern state openly, even proudly, carries out the policy of

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social engineering, intervening deeply in the lives of communities, while

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enjoying total impunity, which is guaranteed by its control of

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lawmaking and law enforcement procedures. There was Monica Perez shared

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with me a video. This must have been back in

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twenty nineteen or and it was at the Chatham House,

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and it was the head of the CFR. I can't

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remember what the hell his name is, Richard Bass I

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think it was at the time. Maybe he still is.

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I haven't looked at on that in a long time.

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And they were talking about how they didn't even worry

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about the churches in the United States anymore, that they

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basically owned them all, they had quote unquote partnerships with them.

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A markedly important function of the law to act as

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a barrier to political hubris, was lost or significantly weakened. Instead,

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the law has become a sword against the unresponsiveness and

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sometimes resistance of society to the policy of aggressive social

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restructuring that is euphemistically called modernization. The law in liberal

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democracy as under communism is no longer blind. No longer

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can one envision it as blindfolded got us holding the

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scales to determine guilt and punishment. It is now as

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it were as it was under communism. One of the

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engines it transforms to present into the future and the

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backwards backward into the progressive. The law is expected to

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be endowed with an accurate picture of what is going

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to happen in the future, so that it can adjudicate

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today what will certainly happen tomorrow. Naturally, politics and law

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and liberal democracies are fickle, just as the reaction of

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demos had always been unpredictable. But there are exceptions to this.

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Politics in law are not blind, for instance, to the

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fact that not all groups deserve support and not all

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should enjoy the approval of the mainstream, its laws and

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its courts. In liberal democracy, as under communism, there are

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those who deserve special protection and are therefore honored with

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special privileges. To this selected circle belong groups. A groups

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official officially anoints it as oppressed. The status of being

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oppressed results from the ideological orthodoxy. Bestowing it on this

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or that group is a purely political decision with no

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regard to reality. Today, for example, homosexual groups have gained

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enormous privileges precisely because they have been identified as an

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oppressed group, the status granted to them for as long

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as liberal democracy reigns. The somewhat bizarre warmth towards homosexuals

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is probably fueled by a persistent attempt to deconstruct the family,

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the institution to which the left has from the very

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beginning felt a singular hostility. Remember the book The Authoritarian

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Personality identifies strong central families as a precursor to fascism.

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Muslims are also privileged to some extent, but for a

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different reason, partly because of the real fear they arouse

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in liberal democrats, partly for doctrinal reasons because granting them

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privileged status is believed to be the living proof of

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the viability of multiculturalist ideology, and partly as an exercise

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in moral massacre. As the attitude towards Muslims is sometimes

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regarded as a test, undoubtedly not an easy one, of

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liberal tolerance and open mindedness. But there are also less

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fortunate groups, not privileged and often treated harshly, such as Christians,

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whom the liberal democratic legislatures and courts clearly dislike. Chapter three,

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Part six. Democratic politicization, being similar to communist politicization, differs

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from it in one important aspect. In democracy, the focus

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is primarily on the cooperation among groups, a problem virtually

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nonexistent under communism, in which, as it was claimed, conflicts

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ceased to exist and therefore a political system of cooperation

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was no longer necessary. Liberal democracy, on the other hand,

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makes cooperation a paramount category and considers itself unquestionably superior

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in that respect to any other system on the argument

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irrefutable in its abstract formulation that cooperation is superior to

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aggression and war. We do not have unceasing wars, to

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be sure, But this does not automatically make liberal democratic

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politics a model of cooperation. Nor is it true that

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the so called politics of emancipation, recognition, and empowerment of

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groups is permeated by the spirit of dialogue, debate, and

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mutual respect. These expressions are of course well rooted in

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today's discourse, nearly as deeply as the building of socialism,

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or a moral political unity of the nation, or integral

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parts of the language of communism. But it does not

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require much effort to see that the dialogue in liberal

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democracy is of a peculiar kind because its aim is

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to maintain the domination of the mainstream and not to

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undermine it. A deliberation is believed to make sense only

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if the mainstream orthodoxy is sure to win politically. Yeah,

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what's that, I guess Chomsky said, you limit debate to

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you limit debate to a box, but you encourage vigorous

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debate inside that box. Anything outside that box's off limits.

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Today's dialogue politics are a pure form of the right

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right is might politics, cleverly concealed by the ostentatiously vacuous

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rhetoric of all inclusiveness. The belief that the liberal democratic

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system has this wonderful cooperation, cooperative nature, No matter that

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that practice often frustrates, it is not without consequence. Once

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this belief is taken to heart, it imposes a particular

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way of thinking. If politics means a mutually respective cooperation

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of parties, and the opposite is a conflict that leads

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a discrimination, unjust domination and in the last instance war.

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Then the establishment of cooperation becomes a political imperative. It

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is certainly not enough to collaborate at the parliamentary and

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government levels. Cooperative politics should cover virtually all areas of

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public life, because everywhere the alternative to cooperation is discrimination,

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unjust domination, and war. Everywhere there are groups being denied

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their rights and therefore struggling for empowerment. And more importantly,

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everywhere there are women, homosexuals, Muslims, Gypsies, blacks, and representatives

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of other groups whom liberal democracy give the status of

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political quasi parties, and upon whom it is thrust the

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duty of settling scores with the alleged oppressors. Thus, everywhere

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we encounter circumstances that make us aware for the need

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for cooperation and of the securing the conditions that make

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it possible. The success in establishing these conditions at the legislative, governmental,

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and international levels depends. In no small measure has been

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emphatically pointed out on success in creating such conditions at

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lower levels. No dialogue, no tolerance, or no respect for

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equal rights exists in everything that constitutes a society, even

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its small and seemingly non political elements, then all agreements

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to cooperate politically at upper levels lose their effectiveness. If

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there is no acceptance of the rights of women and

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homosexuals in everyday life and small neighborhoods, then general rules

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in the constitution that equate men and women, homosexuals and

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heterosexuals are empty. That equate men and women, homosexuals and

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heterosexuals are empty declarations. Effective politics becomes thus a comprehensive

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task because the preconditions on which cooperation is dependent are

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not only numerous, but constantly growing in number. Literature, art, education,

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family liturgy, the Bible, traditions, idea, entertainment, children's toys all

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can be deemed conducive to cooperation or strengthening intolerance, discrimination,

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and domination. All contain sentences, ideas, topics, and images that

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are difficult to accept by some groups, and that may

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be interpreted as reflecting negative perception of these groups. Such

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negative perceptions, called prejudices, undermine these group status, the group's status,

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and consequently their political position in a democratic society. If

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in families it is the father who makes the major decisions,

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and such a power structure and a small social unit

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generates negative stereotypes that undermine the position of women in

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the family, which, multiplied by the appropriate number of cases,

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undermines the position of women in society at large and

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prevents them from cooperating on an equal footing with men.

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If a book, for example, Ladislav Ray mons The Promised

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Land presents a picture of capitalists in which their ways

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of doing business are correlated with cultural ethnic characteristics Polish,

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Jewish or German. Some may consider this portrayal to promote

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anti Polish, anti Jewish, and anti German stereotypes, which, in turn,

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multiplied by the appropriate number of readers and lessons of school,

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contributes to serious distortions of cooperation among Polish, Jewish and

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German communities in the real world. If people tell faggot jokes,

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then the result, when multiplied by the appropriate number of situations,

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is a discrimination that intentionally marginalizes the cooper cooperation process

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for homosexuals as a group. So all of this has

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to be eliminated, even at the smallest That's why a

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woman in the home, even a woman who's working in

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the home, has to have equal standing with her husband,

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because all of this can multiply. Another woman can see

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that faggot jokes can start. All of these things have

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to be stopped dead in their tracks. This explains the

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rise and the infamous phenomenon of political correctness. There's nothing

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mysterious about it. It is simply a practical consequence of

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the view that the duty of citizens of the liberal

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democratic society is to participate in the great collective enterprise

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where everyone cooperates with everyone else at all levels and

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under all circumstances. If we look at three above examples family,

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life of books, content, and popular jokes, we can see

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that from politically correct perspective, they are no longer irrelevant trivialities.

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They illustrate what is absolutely crucial for the entire logic

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of liberal democracy. Because the logic of this system turns

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on dialogue, respect, equal rights, openness, and tolerance, everything is

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by definition political, and nothing that relates, however remotely to

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these notions is trivial, minor, or irrelevant. A slight offensive

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remark must always be must always be regarded as a

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manifestation of mortal sin. What seems a barely visible mark

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on the surface conceals underneath swirling currents of hatred, intolerance, racism,

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and hedgemony. The body responsible for the ensuring that these

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terrible things do not surface is the state, with all

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the instruments at its disposal. It is the state that

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should incessantly work to impose and improve cooperation policies by

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removing all real and potential barriers, creating a favorable legal environment,

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and reshaping public space and education in such a way

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that the people's minds internalize the rule of politically correct thinking.

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If you haven't seen that or noticed that in the

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last four years, you're not paying attention. This also raises

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the question as to whether calling what liberal democracy he's

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proving liberal democracy is here communism remarks, whether that's legitimate.

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It's obviously closed. But it's not the same thing. So

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if you insist on using this boomer retard term of

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calling everything you don't like Marxism or communism, well you're wrong.

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Communism and Marxism are something historic, They mean something. And

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if you are not, if you don't understand what dialectical

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materialism is, to stop using words. So I'm using terms

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you don't understand. It's liberal democracy, that's all it is.

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Now you can stop listening to James Lindsay and burn

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his books. I do whatever you want with them, I

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don't care. Such undertaking carries a high price. When the

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state takes over responsibility for the roles of cooperation and

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their enforcement on all layers of society, there will be

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no limits to its interference in people's lives. The laws

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that enacts must of necessity be increasingly more detailed than intrusive,

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because what threatens those rules and has to be curtailed

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is believed to be hidden deeply in social practices and

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human consciousness. You will actually hear this when I did

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the reading of Israel The Psychopathic Nation, which is just

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basically a paper that quotes Jewish philosophers over and over again.

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They will say that antisemitism has basically taken over human consciousness,

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that it's a disease that's been passed down for two

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thousand years. Do you believe that or is it just jealousy?

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The slippery slope argument, so often used by liberals, is

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particularly pertinent here. The logic of liberalism is that whatever

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seems to be the most obviously non political sooner or

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later will become political. Logic of democracy, with its notions

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of participation, inclusion, and representation, only strengthened this tendency. Language

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was first was the first to go down this road.

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00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:16,400
Initially thought of as potentially descriptive and neutral, it soon

475
00:34:16,559 --> 00:34:19,159
came to be seen as the major political weapon used

476
00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:22,800
by oppressors against the oppressed. Thus, the fagot jokes are

477
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:27,039
not harmless anecdotes, sometimes funny and sometimes not. The mere

478
00:34:27,079 --> 00:34:30,239
fact of using the word faggot and speech public or

479
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,320
private is an act of participation in the exclusion of

480
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:39,000
homosexuals from the Democrats, from the democratic cooperation. But because

481
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,280
speech is just an expression of thoughts, emotions, and deeply

482
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,159
hidden aversions, it must soon become obvious that the actual

483
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:52,039
sources of evil, intolerance, discrimination, domination lie dormant in people's minds,

484
00:34:52,079 --> 00:34:56,360
often deposited in their semi conscious layers, uncontrolled and unnoticed.

485
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,719
These shape our language and consequently are bad habits and

486
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:09,119
negative predilections. These habits and predilections leads to discriminatory laws

487
00:35:09,159 --> 00:35:12,559
and authoritarian politics, and extreme cases, at the very bottom

488
00:35:12,559 --> 00:35:16,519
of the slippery slope, to prosecution, the stocks, torture, and genocide.

489
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,960
But at the beginning, at the very top, it's thought

490
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,800
with which it all began, a thought crime, a mental

491
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,719
sin that constitutes the first act of disobedience to holy

492
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,719
political principles. Whoever seeks the remedy must start with the

493
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:35,719
political therapy of people's minds. I was talking about the

494
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:42,159
slippery slope yesterday, and I said that I thought a

495
00:35:42,199 --> 00:35:47,400
better like thinking about a rolling rock. A rock, a stone,

496
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:52,679
a gigantic stone should be in place. It should be

497
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:58,239
something that's foundational, grounded. But once you start moving it,

498
00:36:00,079 --> 00:36:02,559
it starts picking up. And usually the only way you

499
00:36:02,559 --> 00:36:06,679
can move it is to roll it. Well, now it's

500
00:36:06,679 --> 00:36:12,559
starting to pick things up. Now it's starting to wear away,

501
00:36:13,079 --> 00:36:19,599
become different. That's how it happens. When you have something

502
00:36:19,639 --> 00:36:25,760
that's a bedrock and you abandon it, Well, what's going

503
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:30,119
to happen. That's how you get the slippery slope, because

504
00:36:30,159 --> 00:36:33,119
now you've something that was not meant to be moved,

505
00:36:33,559 --> 00:36:38,360
was not meant to be changed, is being changed, and

506
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,559
once something has changed, or what's the big deal? It's

507
00:36:41,679 --> 00:36:47,920
changes some more. Communism had a comparably strong sense of

508
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:52,199
political evil, originating, as in liberal democracy, from an internal

509
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,079
act of treason and a profound inability to accept the

510
00:36:55,119 --> 00:36:58,480
communist message. But the evil could be disarmed or even

511
00:36:58,519 --> 00:37:01,719
turn to good once he's maternal active treason was disowned

512
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:06,280
and the mind reborn and reformed, accepted without reservations the

513
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:10,760
communist message. The communist state was not oblivious to this possibility,

514
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,719
and its functionaries offered various therapeutic programs to help the

515
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,559
sinners to abandon bad habits and cleanse themselves of bad thoughts.

516
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,800
Once their consciousness was raised, as it was then called,

517
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,119
they could join good comrades in the march toward the

518
00:37:27,159 --> 00:37:31,079
happy future of communism. This incredible as it may seem,

519
00:37:31,519 --> 00:37:35,880
found that its continuation in liberal democracy, even the expression

520
00:37:36,199 --> 00:37:41,480
raising consciousness was retained despite its sinister undertone, denoting essentially

521
00:37:41,519 --> 00:37:49,119
comparable practices of cleansing people's minds of politically subversive mental predilections.

522
00:37:49,159 --> 00:37:52,559
Having gone through consciousness raising therapy, people could, for instance,

523
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,559
rid their minds of sexist thoughts and developed disgust for

524
00:37:55,679 --> 00:37:59,079
faggot jokes. America, to my knowledge, was the first liberal

525
00:37:59,159 --> 00:38:02,840
democratic country to create and in some cases impose such

526
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,239
therapies on people with unruly minds, but the method found

527
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:12,840
zealous imitators elsewhere, including in Eastern Europe. We have already

528
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,440
had several enthusiastic reports of some Polish professors who during

529
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:20,159
their stay at American universities were shipped after having sinned

530
00:38:20,599 --> 00:38:23,519
to such a training to have their awareness of a

531
00:38:23,559 --> 00:38:28,159
feminist perspective raised. Former patients equip with new minds now

532
00:38:28,199 --> 00:38:33,000
politically correct because because free from thought crimes, will probably

533
00:38:33,079 --> 00:38:35,880
be the first to be asked to pilot similar programs

534
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,519
in their native country, in which, as we are constantly

535
00:38:38,559 --> 00:38:43,639
reminded by our intellectual pundits, raising the awareness of feminism, homosexuality,

536
00:38:43,679 --> 00:38:49,360
and race is of critical importance. The government is not

537
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,360
the only agent that is supposed to oversee the rules

538
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:56,800
of cooperation and fight against all the non collaborative groups. Actually,

539
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,800
this responsibility rests on everyone's shoulders and everyone responsible for

540
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:04,559
tracking what is wrong and implementing what is right. In

541
00:39:04,599 --> 00:39:07,599
this respect, liberal democracy has achieved at least as much

542
00:39:07,639 --> 00:39:12,599
as communism, and perhaps even more real socialism used coercion

543
00:39:12,679 --> 00:39:15,639
in the most palatable sense of the word. The authorities

544
00:39:15,639 --> 00:39:18,800
treated acts of disobedience with brutality, and the bloody birth

545
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,159
of the system was not without effect on the behavior

546
00:39:22,199 --> 00:39:25,360
of the next generation. In a liberal democracy, of asked.

547
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,760
Part of this process oc correspontaneously, and the legal and

548
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,159
political coersion is to some extent a response to public

549
00:39:32,199 --> 00:39:37,360
demand and not an arbitrary act of violence against society.

550
00:39:38,039 --> 00:39:42,480
Hence the large hence the large crowds of individuals who

551
00:39:42,519 --> 00:39:48,159
are willing, like some contemporary Povka Mosarovs, to track down

552
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:53,480
dissonant words, actions, and intentions in their immediate vicinity, their

553
00:39:53,519 --> 00:39:58,840
tartsif like minds poisoned the society and other minds. In

554
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,960
liberal democracy as an communism, a significant role in the

555
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,079
task of tracking is assigned to intellectuals, who, as the

556
00:40:06,119 --> 00:40:09,719
most knowledgeable and enlightened, are best suited for such a task,

557
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,639
which is first to identify a criminal thought and then

558
00:40:12,679 --> 00:40:15,280
to warn against a slippery slope that leads from this

559
00:40:15,559 --> 00:40:20,239
thought to political domination. Sometimes this path is not perceptible

560
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,719
to a simple mind. It may start, for example, with

561
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,480
a non inclusive use of a personal pronoun he instead

562
00:40:26,519 --> 00:40:30,039
of he or she or better she or he or

563
00:40:30,079 --> 00:40:34,639
still better she all the time. This use may be

564
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,920
indeed a result of simple educational negligence in kindergarten, but

565
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,440
may sometimes end with the rape of a woman. An

566
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:47,559
intellectual sharp eye and perceptiveness will always recognize what is

567
00:40:47,599 --> 00:40:52,000
politically dangerous a sentence, a metaphor of proverb, an incorrect

568
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,119
text on the bulletin board, work of fiction, a seemingly

569
00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:59,079
little thing, and yet shamelessly undermining the liberal democratic rules.

570
00:41:00,039 --> 00:41:03,800
And because liberal democracy, like communism, produces large numbers of

571
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:08,320
lumpen intellectuals, there is no shortage of people who ecstatically

572
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:13,199
become involved in tracking disloyalty and fostering a new orthodoxy.

573
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,719
It happens that both systems never suffer from a shortage

574
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,760
of people willing, often without being asked, to survey the

575
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:25,519
political purity in communities, institutions, groups, and all types of

576
00:41:25,519 --> 00:41:33,719
social behavior. Lumpen intellectuals will be added to my vocabulary.

577
00:41:34,559 --> 00:41:38,000
The atmosphere of the system. The atmosphere of the systems

578
00:41:38,039 --> 00:41:42,679
produce is particularly conducive to endangering, engendering a certain type

579
00:41:42,679 --> 00:41:46,239
of mentality that of a moralist, a commissar, and an

580
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:49,360
informer roled into one. In one sense, this person may

581
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:55,039
think that he performs something particularly valuable to humanity. In another,

582
00:41:55,519 --> 00:41:58,320
the situation helps him to develop a sense of power

583
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:02,199
otherwise unavailable to him. And in a third, he often

584
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:05,880
cannot resist the temptation to indulge in a low desire

585
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:10,079
to harm others. With impunity for this reason, tracking opposition

586
00:42:10,159 --> 00:42:13,320
and defending orthodox he turned out to be so attractive

587
00:42:13,559 --> 00:42:17,119
that more and more people failed to resist. In both

588
00:42:17,119 --> 00:42:21,440
communism and liberal democracy we encounter the same peculiarity. What

589
00:42:21,559 --> 00:42:24,760
is incidental is treated by as a systematic problem as

590
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,159
a systemic problem, which really means that whatever happens is

591
00:42:28,199 --> 00:42:32,159
systemic and nothing is incidental to the system. It thus

592
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:35,880
becomes natural for true liberal democrats, as it was for

593
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:39,480
true communists, to harass their colleagues because of a casual remark,

594
00:42:40,119 --> 00:42:43,360
or of a lack of vigilance or an improper joke,

595
00:42:43,599 --> 00:42:47,480
making the lives of unruly individuals difficult by constantly admonishing

596
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:53,639
and creating further regulations and stricter laws. By doing so,

597
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,599
the self proclaimed guardians of purity see themselves as carrying

598
00:42:57,679 --> 00:43:00,360
on their shoulders the responsibility for the fear future of

599
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:04,840
liberal democracy worldwide. If not for their effort and dedication,

600
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,519
this great political enterprise, they think, would become fouled and

601
00:43:08,599 --> 00:43:14,280
then perish. The thought, as in any system built on

602
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:18,440
violence and laws, In communism, this somewhat paradoxical belief in

603
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:22,760
both invincibility and vulnerability could be easily explained. It was

604
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,199
felt that a few true thoughts and ideas, once they

605
00:43:25,199 --> 00:43:29,360
became public publicly acknowledged is true, would lay bare the

606
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,000
false set of the entire system and eventually tear it down.

607
00:43:32,519 --> 00:43:35,519
Even the most self mystified builders of this structure knew

608
00:43:35,559 --> 00:43:40,440
that the truth was their most powerful enemy, and to

609
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,679
speak not entirely metaphorically, it was the truth that tore

610
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:47,199
it down. In a liberal democracy, such a view seems

611
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,880
absurd because the system is stable and the principle of

612
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:54,960
freedom of speech is included in the constitution. But those

613
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:59,559
who hunt for political incorrectness political incorrectness and foster political correctness.

614
00:44:00,079 --> 00:44:03,400
Leaver perhaps subconsciously assumed that the stability is not as

615
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,320
great as naively thought, nor the freedom of speech is

616
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,920
unproblematic as people of ill will consider it to be.

617
00:44:10,199 --> 00:44:14,079
Give me a second, I need to clear my nose. Sorry,

618
00:44:14,159 --> 00:44:22,480
something is uh causing allergies under communism. The fact that

619
00:44:22,519 --> 00:44:25,280
somebody published a poem, a story, a book, and an

620
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:29,159
uncensored illegal circulation or a politically dubious cartoon in a

621
00:44:29,199 --> 00:44:32,159
local newspaper put the entire pullet bureau on the alert,

622
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:37,920
which sometimes made the heads make the heads roll. Such

623
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:41,000
seemingly small incidents were considered a major problem that would

624
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:45,800
require massive counter actions, such as carefully organized demonstrations of

625
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:50,119
workers denouncing the perpetrators, or official condemnations by the Association

626
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:56,320
of Writers, Artists, actors, and teachers. Just one incorrect word

627
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,119
or one word too many was enough to make the

628
00:44:59,159 --> 00:45:03,079
creator lose his job or be blacklisted. In a liberal democracy,

629
00:45:03,119 --> 00:45:08,239
seemingly everything is permissible, but politically incorrect events immediately trigger

630
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:15,280
an avalanche reaction of resistance, intellectualist protests. Journalists on TV

631
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:19,159
twist their faces in moral indignation. Comedians used the whip

632
00:45:19,199 --> 00:45:23,119
of satire, and the lump and intelligentsia, delighted with all

633
00:45:23,119 --> 00:45:27,559
their indignation, whistle heckel, stamp their feet and demand exemplary

634
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:36,199
punishment of the perpetrators. A delusion to which the trackers

635
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:39,760
of traders to liberal democracy readily succumb is that is

636
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:43,480
their belief that they are a brave, small group struggling

637
00:45:43,559 --> 00:45:48,920
dauntlessly against an overwhelmingly overwhelming enemy. And again, an analogy

638
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,599
to communism seems irresistible. On your communism, people were made

639
00:45:52,679 --> 00:45:55,119
to believe that they were involved in a never ending

640
00:45:55,159 --> 00:45:59,039
fight against the enemy. This enemy had various faces, and identities,

641
00:45:59,079 --> 00:46:05,320
all frighteningly powerful international imperialism, the CIA allied reactionary domestic

642
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:08,719
and foreign forces supported by millions of dollars from Washington,

643
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:14,559
London and Paris. In a liberal democracy, the fight also

644
00:46:14,639 --> 00:46:17,800
goes on, and the enemy two represents the dark forces,

645
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:22,039
always reviving despite a series of victories by the forces

646
00:46:22,039 --> 00:46:27,559
of light. Patriarchy, white supremacy, racism, nationalism and other terrible

647
00:46:27,559 --> 00:46:30,440
things said to have millions of supporters and a network

648
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:34,519
of speech and cultural habits established over the centuries. The

649
00:46:34,559 --> 00:46:37,639
warriors of political correctness think of themselves in the category

650
00:46:37,639 --> 00:46:40,519
of the struggle between David and Goliath. Nothing can be

651
00:46:40,559 --> 00:46:43,360
further from the truth. They belong to the mainstream, having

652
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,880
all instruments of power at their disposal on their side

653
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:49,840
of the courts, both national and international, the UN and

654
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:53,199
its agencies, to European Union with all its institutions, countless

655
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:58,920
media universities and public opinion. I'll add social media corporations.

656
00:46:59,119 --> 00:47:02,800
All that. The illusion they cherish of being a brave

657
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:06,320
minority heroically facing the whole world, false as it is,

658
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:10,239
gives them, nevertheless, a strange sense of comfort. They feel

659
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,840
absolutely safe, being equipped with the most powerful political sools

660
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,880
in today's world, but at the same time priding themselves

661
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:22,400
on their courage and decency, which are more formidable, which

662
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,079
are more formidable, the more awesome the image of the

663
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:34,480
enemy becomes Chapter three, Part seven. The stifling intrusiveness of

664
00:47:34,519 --> 00:47:37,000
liberal democracy should not come to us as a surprise

665
00:47:37,119 --> 00:47:41,280
once we remember its inner dialectic. Liberalism, as we recall,

666
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:43,960
created a private man and wanted to deliver the vast

667
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:47,800
majority of human race from the burden unnatural and unnecessary

668
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:51,159
as the liberals thought of politics. It succeeded in the

669
00:47:51,199 --> 00:47:55,519
first and failed in the second. Liberalism indeed made people

670
00:47:56,199 --> 00:47:59,840
private on an unprecedented scale. Yet these people, having discovered

671
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:03,719
the importance of their privacy, did not renounce politics. Hence,

672
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:07,639
when a liberal democratic man becomes involved in political activities,

673
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,920
it was natural that he imbued them with what he

674
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,480
regarded to be closest to him, what he lived for

675
00:48:13,599 --> 00:48:18,599
and breathed, and what provided him with the reason for being.

676
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,800
But these were matters so far regarded as private. The

677
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:27,400
liberal democratic man politicized his privacy, perhaps his main contributions

678
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:31,000
to the change in thinking about politics. He politicized marriage,

679
00:48:31,079 --> 00:48:35,360
family relations, communal life. Language in this, he resembled his

680
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:39,639
communist comrade. But his greatest success in this regard, unmatched

681
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:43,519
so far by any competitor, was to politicize that area

682
00:48:43,559 --> 00:48:46,599
that seemed to be the most private of all private,

683
00:48:47,079 --> 00:48:50,280
the most intimate of all things intimate, and thus the

684
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:56,480
least appropriate to political meddling, the realm of sex. Obviously,

685
00:48:56,519 --> 00:48:59,440
the intentions to politicize sex had appeared before in radical

686
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:03,679
programs aimed at fundamental transformation of society, including the destruction

687
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:07,920
of his traditional institutions. Those radicals and revolutionaries who were

688
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:10,559
looking for a better foundation for a better society knew

689
00:49:10,679 --> 00:49:13,480
very well that their program must fail unless they managed

690
00:49:13,519 --> 00:49:17,599
to do something with the family. This institution was always considered,

691
00:49:17,679 --> 00:49:20,800
quite understandably to be the most serious obstacle to the

692
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,800
task of building a new society. When Plato and the

693
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:27,280
Republic raised the question of a perfect political power elite,

694
00:49:27,599 --> 00:49:30,719
he naturally related it to the problem of family. He

695
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:32,960
argued that a member of such a true elite should

696
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:36,239
be free from any family bonds, because these would weaken

697
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,000
his dedication to work for the state, and it was

698
00:49:39,079 --> 00:49:41,800
this state that he should regard his sole object of

699
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:47,440
quasi familial devotion to this, Plato added a singular politics

700
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:51,239
of sex, whose distribution was, on the one hand, give

701
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,199
the members of the elite an opportunity to satisfy their

702
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:57,400
sexual needs, and on the other side, strengthen the state.

703
00:50:00,119 --> 00:50:02,960
In modern times, the family, while not particularly respected by

704
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:07,000
philosophers of liberal and democratic persuasions, was not an object

705
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:11,119
of systematic attack. Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau certainly did not

706
00:50:11,199 --> 00:50:13,719
fight against it with the use of arguments referring to

707
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:17,320
sex and sexual instinct. The Communists were far more outspoken

708
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:21,079
in this regard. They willingly raised sex arguments to attack

709
00:50:21,119 --> 00:50:24,800
the monogamous marriage as an institution. Friedrich Engels and his

710
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:28,320
work on the family, spoke sharply about the existing institution

711
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:32,079
of marriage, which he compared to prostitution, the wife selling

712
00:50:32,079 --> 00:50:36,119
herself upon entering the marriage, and the husband buying extramarital pleasures.

713
00:50:37,519 --> 00:50:40,119
In his scattered comments, Engles drew a picture of what

714
00:50:40,199 --> 00:50:43,199
he considered a good family. The marriage would last only

715
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:46,199
as long as the spouses loved and were physically attracted

716
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:50,360
to each other. It all sounded disarmingly naive, even sentimental,

717
00:50:50,519 --> 00:50:53,320
with no special insight into human nature or the sense

718
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:58,639
of the institution itself. The idea of free love between

719
00:50:58,679 --> 00:51:02,280
adults completely unrelated to marriage, gained some notoriety in the

720
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,119
late eighteenth century and was practiced with little success by

721
00:51:05,119 --> 00:51:08,760
some liberally minded eccentrics. It played a more prominent role

722
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:11,519
in the writings of certain communists, who assumed that the

723
00:51:11,559 --> 00:51:17,840
Communist revolution would inevitably entail a dramatic change in sexual mores. Indeed,

724
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:21,119
after the October Revolution in nineteen seventeen, sexual life was

725
00:51:21,159 --> 00:51:26,320
set free, with sadly predictable results. Later this policy was abandoned,

726
00:51:26,599 --> 00:51:29,159
mainly because the communist leaders started to perceive it as

727
00:51:29,199 --> 00:51:33,039
a whim of the intelligentsia, and militant communism found other

728
00:51:33,079 --> 00:51:35,760
fields for action much more important from the point of

729
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:39,519
view of the revolution. Despite the occasional tide changes, divorce

730
00:51:39,599 --> 00:51:42,880
and abortion ultimately became the leading achievements of the new

731
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:46,360
political system, and in this regard, Communism was far ahead

732
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:54,280
of the liberal West gee all the levers just following

733
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:59,719
ride along for the Great sexual revolution the West had

734
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,880
to win until the sixties of the twentieth century. What

735
00:52:03,079 --> 00:52:06,079
happened then was in terms of scope and content, far

736
00:52:06,119 --> 00:52:10,320
more radical than anything in the past. Its consequences unpredicted

737
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:14,239
during the revolution itself continue to unfold themselves before our

738
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,960
eyes even today, and will most likely continue in the

739
00:52:17,039 --> 00:52:21,000
years to come. The Revolution of mind two things. First,

740
00:52:21,039 --> 00:52:23,960
it repeated the old communist plan to overthrow the repressive

741
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:28,400
power structures, including marriage and family. This time, however, and

742
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:31,880
that was what made it different from previous revolutions. Its

743
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:36,599
slogans of sexual liberation mobilized millions of people, and it

744
00:52:36,639 --> 00:52:41,039
had at its disposal previously unheard of instruments of ideological warfare,

745
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:46,119
notably mass culture and mass media. The novelty was the

746
00:52:46,119 --> 00:52:48,679
clarity of the message. Sex was said to be the

747
00:52:48,679 --> 00:52:51,719
most powerful element of human nature, and yet still enslaved

748
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:55,920
by oppressive structures from within and from without. This emphasis

749
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:59,559
on sex came probably from Freudianism, which had a particularly

750
00:52:59,639 --> 00:53:03,079
strong impact on America but also a considerable sway in Europe.

751
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:07,599
The New Crusaders' sexual liberation simplified Freud's views and widely

752
00:53:07,599 --> 00:53:13,400
distributed them as politically palatable, a politically palatable, rather carefree vision.

753
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,800
The message that reached a million's was a human sexual

754
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:20,400
impulses had been so far suppressed that the suppression had

755
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:24,119
been deletarious, and that once sex was liberated, life would

756
00:53:24,159 --> 00:53:30,280
become immeasurably nicer. The concept received its revolutionary form from

757
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:33,239
Herbert Marcuse, who back in the nineteen fifties came up

758
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:36,599
with a theory a mixture of Freudianism and Marxism, explaining

759
00:53:36,599 --> 00:53:39,519
how to combine sexual liberation with a political struggle to

760
00:53:39,559 --> 00:53:44,039
overthrow the system. His argument was roughly composed of two elements.

761
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:47,960
The first or rather diabolical image of the modern capitalist world,

762
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:52,519
able to repel and neutralize all the revolutionary movements of change.

763
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:55,960
The second and interpretation of sexis the only power in

764
00:53:56,039 --> 00:54:00,360
man and society, inherently subversive and yet uncontrolled by the

765
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:04,800
powers that be. Hence, the proclamation of sexual liberation was

766
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:08,159
a call to political collective action, and sex itself became

767
00:54:08,199 --> 00:54:11,960
the paramount political weapon. For some time, this diagnosis remained

768
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:15,000
unnoticed and was considered by many to be quite silly.

769
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:18,400
Why would sexual promiscuity be a tool of political struggle.

770
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:22,480
The very idea seemed unworthy of intellectual attention. However, after

771
00:54:22,519 --> 00:54:26,679
several years this theory gained great popularity, especially as it

772
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:30,199
is fairly easy to understand among young people, including the

773
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:36,760
rebellious students on college on university campuses. But there was

774
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:42,079
another side to the sexual revolution alongside the Marxian freudianism

775
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:46,199
that was rarely indicated. The sexual Revolution was a culmination

776
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:50,239
of growing consumerism in Western societies, which in turn stemmed

777
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:54,000
from the unprecedented prosperity and security that these societies had

778
00:54:54,039 --> 00:54:57,559
managed to achieve until the nineteen sixties. The growing number

779
00:54:57,639 --> 00:55:01,519
of easily available goods did not include. This was regulated

780
00:55:01,559 --> 00:55:04,760
by existing social practices as well as by old moral

781
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:11,199
precepts going back to classical ethics. This growing consumerism tended

782
00:55:11,199 --> 00:55:15,559
to weaken both social practices and moral precepts and replace

783
00:55:15,639 --> 00:55:18,920
them with far less demanding and seemingly more natural criteria

784
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:22,880
of a utilitarian kind, pleasure being the principal yardstick to

785
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:26,800
measure the value of human goals. The impressive efficiency of

786
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:31,079
modern civilization accustomed people to expect that their actions would

787
00:55:31,079 --> 00:55:35,119
be instantly gratified. Whatever delayed or hindered this gratification was

788
00:55:35,159 --> 00:55:40,719
considered unnatural, repressive, incomprehensible, and in the long run, unacceptable.

789
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:44,519
When we look at this mental change from the perspective

790
00:55:44,559 --> 00:55:46,559
of the history of philosophy, we can see it in

791
00:55:46,599 --> 00:55:50,639
the final though, thank god, not yet closed phase of

792
00:55:50,679 --> 00:55:55,719
a long process. From the beginning, pleasure was considered by

793
00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:58,199
philosophers to be an important part of the human experience,

794
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:01,679
also having a complicated but power powerful relation to morality.

795
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:05,079
For twenty five centuries, the nature of this relationship had

796
00:56:05,119 --> 00:56:08,079
been the subject of an engaging and often illuminating debate.

797
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:12,519
The debate unavoidably occasioned the use of other concepts not

798
00:56:12,599 --> 00:56:17,639
identical to that of pleasure but somehow related to it, happiness, fulfillment, flourishing,

799
00:56:17,679 --> 00:56:19,519
and a few others. At the end of the day,

800
00:56:19,599 --> 00:56:27,440
pleasure finally outclassed its rivals. Perhaps the most momentous aspect

801
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:29,880
of this victory was that the concept of happiness in

802
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:33,559
classical ethics, considered one of the central categories, fell out

803
00:56:33,599 --> 00:56:38,239
of use and was eventually equated quite erroneously with pleasure. Originally,

804
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:42,440
happiness was a quantity that one could attribute to an

805
00:56:42,599 --> 00:56:46,039
entire life, not to its episodes or moments. Under no

806
00:56:46,119 --> 00:56:48,840
circumstances could one reduce it to pleasure, a short and

807
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:53,639
transient experience. Pursuing happiness meant planning one's entire life so

808
00:56:53,679 --> 00:56:57,440
that it had its own moral consistency and internal harmony.

809
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:04,280
Both achieved through the inculcation of virtues. Bringing pleasures to

810
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:08,119
the center of life engendered a different image of human nature.

811
00:57:08,599 --> 00:57:11,719
Human beings, in this view no longer think of themselves

812
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:14,000
in terms of the whole of their existence, but in

813
00:57:14,079 --> 00:57:18,159
terms of moments and episodes. It could not be otherwise,

814
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:22,880
because there is no such thing as the pleasure of life.

815
00:57:23,519 --> 00:57:26,320
One can talk about pleasures and pleasant moments that happen

816
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:29,159
in life, and one can even encourage people to collect

817
00:57:29,199 --> 00:57:32,679
their pleasures and pleasant moments, the more the better, But

818
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:36,400
the latter strategy, even if successful, does not predetermine whether

819
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:40,719
this or that particular life and its entirety is or

820
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:44,159
is not happy. It may have many pleasant moments, but

821
00:57:44,199 --> 00:57:48,199
these do not automatically translate themselves into a unifying moral scenario,

822
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:52,480
nor make a life fulfilled. To have a fulfilling life

823
00:57:52,599 --> 00:57:57,639
is it is necessary to give it a durable, inherent

824
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:02,199
meaning that may very well exists with having many pleasant moments,

825
00:58:02,599 --> 00:58:04,880
but is in no way a result of these moments,

826
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:08,159
no matter how many. One can, of course construe one's

827
00:58:08,159 --> 00:58:10,480
life as a series of episodes, but this must, to

828
00:58:10,519 --> 00:58:13,800
a greater or lesser degree, undermine the sense of continuity

829
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:17,920
of existence. In more extreme cases, leading to different identifications,

830
00:58:19,639 --> 00:58:22,880
each associated with a different episode. But even if our

831
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:27,960
lives are episodic, ourselves are not. Hence, the life dedicated

832
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,880
to the accumulation of pleasures, but lacking an internal unity

833
00:58:31,079 --> 00:58:33,239
will most likely not be a happy life, because a

834
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:38,440
human being cannot renounce his unity without negative consequences. The

835
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:41,599
sexual revolution is arguably the most extreme manifestation of the

836
00:58:41,599 --> 00:58:46,039
episodic nature of man. To surrender one's life to sexual

837
00:58:46,079 --> 00:58:49,000
pleasure meant once and for all, abandoning any attempt. It

838
00:58:49,039 --> 00:58:52,760
gives one existence a unifying meaning. This pleasure is like

839
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:55,639
no other related to what is short lived and ephemeral.

840
00:58:58,039 --> 00:59:00,480
Many wise men in the history of European and thought

841
00:59:00,559 --> 00:59:03,760
consistently warned against the effects of the uncontrolled rain of

842
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:08,800
pleasures over human life. In classical ethics, pleasures were feared

843
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:12,559
because they not only do not have a self mitigating mechanism,

844
00:59:12,599 --> 00:59:15,760
but are likely, when unchecked, to do away with external

845
00:59:16,199 --> 00:59:21,079
to do away with external mitigating measures, these warnings were

846
00:59:21,079 --> 00:59:24,239
not treated with the seriousness they deserved by modern utilitarians.

847
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:29,480
With the growth of consumerism, this fur evaporated as a

848
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:34,480
new rhetoric of sexual liberation declared the existing limitations on

849
00:59:34,559 --> 00:59:38,639
sex consumption unacceptable. The time finally came to push the

850
00:59:38,679 --> 00:59:43,000
cull to pleasure to a new low. Free sex was

851
00:59:43,039 --> 00:59:46,000
not only pleasure, It also stood for spontaneity against soulis,

852
00:59:46,079 --> 00:59:49,880
technology and productivity. It stood for peace and universal harmony,

853
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:58,119
with no constraints, no domination, no discrimination. These musings illustrated

854
00:59:58,159 --> 01:00:00,639
as it is easy to see an old dream somewhat

855
01:00:00,679 --> 01:00:03,840
modified to new realities of the advent of the era

856
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:08,280
free of politics, where individual people would enjoy individual pleasures

857
01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:13,960
unmolested by the state and its institutions. The difference was

858
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:18,960
that instead of trading, gardening, fishing, reading books, and leaving

859
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:22,000
family life, these old dreams lost their charms. Being a

860
01:00:22,039 --> 01:00:25,880
private man met now primarily indulging in sexual pleasures occasionally

861
01:00:26,039 --> 01:00:34,159
enhanced with narcotic trips. But as before, what was intended

862
01:00:34,239 --> 01:00:36,800
as a plan to cleanse the world, the politics ushered

863
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:41,880
in politicization on a scale unprecedented in liberal democratic societies.

864
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:44,719
Millions of people were mobilized to act for the better world,

865
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:50,760
and one wave of sexual liberation followed another. Women, homosexuals, lesbians, polygamists,

866
01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:54,880
advocates of sexual communes all wanted to have their claims

867
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:57,679
recognized and to contribute to the making of a new society.

868
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:00,719
Sex became the new weapons to destroy the old order

869
01:01:00,719 --> 01:01:04,159
and the instruments to forge a new one. Having been

870
01:01:04,199 --> 01:01:07,800
elevated to such a high position, it began to penetrate

871
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:14,199
all spheres of public life, and upon intended education, art, culture, commerce, language.

872
01:01:17,039 --> 01:01:19,760
The sexual utopia did not come about, but sex was

873
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:22,840
politicized and became a part of the official agenda of

874
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:26,719
the state and its institutions. The rebels, without a moment's hesitation,

875
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:30,760
joined the ranks to the political structures and became their functionaries.

876
01:01:31,119 --> 01:01:34,360
The consequences of all this, however, were not necessarily quite

877
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:37,679
those that were planned. Once institutionalized from ass orb by

878
01:01:37,719 --> 01:01:42,280
the system, sexual freedom permeated law, customs, social practices, schools,

879
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:48,239
educational programs, and public discourse. Since then, the issue of

880
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:52,280
human sexuality, abortion, homosexuality, and so called reproductive rights have

881
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:55,920
been expoused by the mainstream and begun to be the

882
01:01:55,960 --> 01:02:01,440
basic identification marks in liberal democratic politics. Today. They are

883
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:06,760
supported by the United Nations, the WHO, international tribunals, governments,

884
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:12,000
the political majority, European institutions, universities, and innumerable think tanks.

885
01:02:12,039 --> 01:02:17,679
And NGOs, long haired hippies chanting make love not War

886
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:22,679
have been replaced by today's politicians, teachers, bureaucrats, and lawyers.

887
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:27,320
The cultal pleasure that once ignited the revolutionary flame does

888
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:30,880
not cause great excitement. Today people have more fun, and

889
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:33,079
fun is still what people are said to be after.

890
01:02:33,519 --> 01:02:36,800
But these pursuits did not bring about happiness to human life.

891
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:43,320
Contemporary literature describing the condition of sexual liberated man depicts

892
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:47,519
a rather gloomy picture of despair and senselessness. Yet the

893
01:02:47,559 --> 01:02:50,719
existential vacuum in which the modern man found himself after

894
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:54,760
the revolution did not diminish. The continued onslaught of sexual

895
01:02:54,760 --> 01:03:01,239
politics on society. The institutionalization of sex the road that

896
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:04,760
was once open to man by hedonism and made avoid

897
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:07,039
all the promises of what can be found on this road.

898
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:12,000
New promises would sound hollow, as one cannot go further

899
01:03:12,119 --> 01:03:16,280
than sex. One cannot indicate other human experience, which would

900
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:19,519
be more basic and more democratic, luring people with more

901
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:24,599
attempting illusions of liberation, giving more intense pleasure, and being

902
01:03:24,639 --> 01:03:28,199
more correlated with episodic existence. The only thing that could

903
01:03:28,199 --> 01:03:30,519
happen to people in societies going along this road is

904
01:03:30,559 --> 01:03:34,719
a continuation of the same sexual policy, which perpetuated by

905
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:42,119
a bureaucratic routine, will become even more ruthless. And how

906
01:03:42,199 --> 01:03:52,280
so well transgenderism? Have you heard of maps minor attracted persons?

907
01:03:53,679 --> 01:03:55,920
You think it was going to stop at just sexual

908
01:03:56,000 --> 01:04:03,159
liberation and homosexuality And did you think that was it

909
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:07,480
or that they were going to go even further? Yep,

910
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:16,159
that's chapter three. Chapter four is titled ideology. But yeah,

911
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:20,239
that's it. I hope you enjoyed it, and I'll see

912
01:04:20,280 --> 01:04:24,760
you for part seven. I believe it's going to be yep,

913
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:27,880
Part seven. Thank you. Take care of everyone.